LONDON -- A national-level chair umpire in the Dominican Republic, Juan Gabriel Castro, was suspended for six years and fined $6,000 by the International Tennis Integrity Agency on Monday for ...

Two of McCarthy’s children attend Ebeling Elementary in Macomb. McCarthy says on Tuesday, her 9-year-old son was upset about something. “He said, ‘Mom, the teacher made me get a paper towel ...

Major League Baseball is trying something new this spring as they're allowing teams to challenge two ball and strike calls per game with the ABS challenge system. Players, managers and fans have ...

he watched the ball sail out of the park while very slowly making his way toward first base. The home plate ump wasn't a huge fan of that, as he quickly told Clark to get on his way.

It can even, some hitters contend, change based on whether an ump likes them or not. Anyone who’s ever thrown a pitch or swung a bat knows that the umpire decides in the end — and those ...

College Ump Ripped for His Move Right After Tennessee Hitter's Huge Grand Slam Jane Fonda Says ‘Woke Just Means You Give a Damn About Other People,' Calls on Hollywood to Fight With Empathy in ...

Thursday's Cactus League opener, a 12-4 Cubs win, saw the first use of an automated ball-strike challenge system, commonly known as a "robot ump," between MLB teams. The Cubs used the challenge ...

A food hall in the North Loop is now under new ownership, and with it are some new offerings - including Caja from the owners behind Brasa that plan to serve up a twist on southern fried chicken.

It didn't take long for the ABS system to prove human umpires wrong during MLB's first spring training game of 2025. What if I told you there was once a day when human umpires ruled all? It didn't ...

So if you see players wearing out those iPads this spring, they may be enrolled in Robot Ump 101 class. The league is also open to holding ABS training sessions, before or after games, that would ...

PHOENIX — The robo ump could kill K-Zone. On Thursday, Major League Baseball will employ what it calls the automated ball-strike system, or ABS, in a big-league spring training game for the ...

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